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Amsterdam - 8 June 2016: Euronexttoday announced the results of the quarterly review for the AEX, the AMX and the AScX. The changes due to the review will be effective from Monday 20 June 2016.

Results of the June 2016 Review

AEX®:

Inclusion of:

Exclusion of:

Galapagos

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AMX®:

Inclusion of:

Exclusion of:

Refresco Group

Galapagos

Wessanen

AScX®:

Inclusion of:

Exclusion of:

AND International Publishers

Refresco Group

Holland Colours

Wessanen

In the event of a take-over or other exceptional circumstances, the Compiler of the indices has the right

to revise the selection up to and including Wednesday 15 June 2016.

Review AEX family

The AEX family is reviewed quarterly (March, June, September, December). The full annual review is in March. The June, September and December reviews serve to replace removed constituents and to facilitate inclusion of recently listed companies.¹

Brussels, 8 June 2016 –Euronext today announced the results of the quarterly review of the BEL 20®, BEL Mid® and BEL Small®. The changes will be effective from Monday 20 June 2016.

Results of the June 2016 review:

BEL 20®

Inclusion of:

Removal of:

None

None

BEL Mid®

Inclusion of:

Removal of:

MONTEA C.V.A.

BQUE NAT. BELGIQUE

BIOCARTIS

BEL Small®

Inclusion of:

Removal of:

BIOCARTIS

BANIMMO A

SMARTPHOTO GROUP

MONTEA C.V.A.

XIOR

OPTION

The compiler retains the right to change the published selection in case of mergers, take-overs, suspension or resumption of trading till the publication of the final data, after close of Wednesday 15 June 2016.

Review BEL 20®, BEL Mid®, and BEL Small®

The BEL family is reviewed quarterly (March, June, September, December). The full annual review is in March. The June, September and December reviews serve to include new entrants in case the index consists of less than the standard number of constituents and to facilitate inclusion of highly ranked non-constituents, for example recently listed companies.

Lisbon, June 8 - Euronext today announced the results of the quarterly review for the PSI 20. The changes due to the review will be effective from Monday, June 20.

Results of the June Review
No changes in the composition of the index.

In the event of a take-over or other exceptional circumstances, the Compiler of the indices has the right to revise the selection up to and including Wednesday 15 June 2016.

Review PSI 20
The PSI 20 is reviewed quarterly (March, June, September, December). The full annual review is in March. The March, June, September and December reviews serve to facilitate inclusion of recently listed companies and to replace removed constituents.

Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, London and Paris – 3 June 2016– Euronext, the leading exchange in the Eurozone, today announced trading volumes for May 2016.

The May 2016 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at €5,932 million (-26.0% compared with May 2015). The activity on ETFs softened during May 2016 with an average daily transaction value at €447 million, down 18.6% compared to May 2015, while our ETF offer continued to expand, with 20 new listings this month.

The average daily volume on equity index derivatives was down during May 2016 at 195,333 contracts (-15.7% compared with May 2015), while the average daily volume on individual equity derivatives decreased, with 187,298 contracts (-12.4% compared with May 2015).

In May 2016, the average daily volume on commodities derivatives decreased by 17.2% when compared to May 2015, with an average daily volume of 38,906 contracts.

In May 2016, the overall average daily volume on Euronext derivatives stands at 421,754 contracts (-14% compared to May 2015) and the open interest increased to 15,699,618 contracts (+8.3% compared to end of May 2015).

In May 2016, Euronext saw market conditions improving for listings. Seven new companies joined Euronext markets, including Philips Lighting in Amsterdam, the largest IPO in Europe year-to-date with €750m capital raised (€3bn market capitalisation at listing), and five EnterNext SMEs, which altogether raised €1,228 million. Euronext also welcomed the listing of Coca Cola European Partners (€16bn market capitalisation at listing) in Amsterdam and London. In addition, during May 2016, €10.9 billion were raised on Euronext in corporate bonds, as well as €5.7 billion in follow-on equity.

Amsterdam, London - 31 May 2016 – Coca-Cola European Partners (ticker symbol: CCE), a major European fast-moving consumer goods company and the world’s largest independent Coca-Cola bottler based on net sales, began trading today on the Amsterdam and London markets of Euronext.

After opening, the first market price was €34.15 per share.The total market capitalisation of Coca-Cola European Partners at opening was approximately €16.5billion.

Coca-Cola European Partners is a new company created by the merger of three Western European bottlers, Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc, Coca-Cola Iberian Partners SAU and Coca-Cola Erfrischungsgetränke GmbH. The company serves over 300 million consumers across 13 countries in Western Europe and has pro forma annual net sales for 2015 of approximately € 11 billion, a volume of approximately 2.5 billion unit cases and EBITDA of €1.8 billion.

John Brock, CEO of Coca-Cola European Partners, said: “We are very pleased to be in Amsterdam today to celebrate the beginning of public trading for Coca-Cola European Partners. Europe represents a strong platform for long-term sustainable growth and Coca-Cola European Partners has the portfolio, the customer relationships and the innovation, flexibility, speed and scale needed to capture this opportunity. By listing on Euronext in Amsterdam and London, we are able to reach new investors and harmonise our listing with our operations.”

John Brock, CEO of Coca-Cola European Partners and Sol Daurella, Chairman of Coca-Cola European Partners, celebrated the company’s listing by sounding the gong in Amsterdam which denotes the opening of trading of Coca-Cola European Partnerson Euronext.

About Coca-Cola European Partners
Coca-Cola European Partners is a leading consumer packaged goods (CPG) company in Europe, producing, distributing and marketing an extensive range of non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages and is the world’s largest independent Coca-Cola bottler based on net sales. Coca-Cola European Partners serves a consumer population of over 300 million across Western Europe, including Andorra, Belgium, continental France, Germany, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands. The company is listed on Euronext Amsterdam, the New York Stock Exchange, Euronext London and on the Spanish stock exchanges and trades under the symbol CCE. For more information about CCEP, please visit www.ccep.comand follow CCEP on Twitter at @CocaColaEP.

Philips Lighting joins Euronext in largest IPO Europe year to date in 2016

Amsterdam and Eindhoven - 27 May 2016 – Philips Lighting (ticker symbol, LIGHT), a global leader in lighting, and Euronext announced today the start of trading of Philips Lighting on the Amsterdam market of Euronext. The listing follows the company’s successful Initial Public Offering (IPO). With a total offering value of € 750 million Philips Lighting is the largest IPO in Europe since the start of the year.

The company today celebrated its listing on Euronext Amsterdam by sounding the gong.

Eric Rondolat, CEO at Philips Lighting, said: “Today with the listing of Philips Lighting as a standalone company on Euronext Amsterdam, we begin a new chapter in a long history of innovation and global market leadership that started in Eindhoven 125 years ago. Our listing is a historic milestone and testimony to the hard work of our employees, who are supporting the expansion of our global market-leadership by helping to drive the transition to LED and connected lighting systems and services. We welcome our new shareholders and thank them for their trust in our company and strategy.”

Maurice van Tilburg, CEO at Euronext Amsterdam, said: “We are truly excited to welcome Philips Lighting, a strong and innovative brand with a rich heritage in lighting industry. The company has pioneered in many technological innovations and established an impressive track record in LED-based technology. Euronext Amsterdam is proud to facilitate Philips Lighting now and in their future innovative journey.”

About Philips LightingPhilips Lighting (ticker symbol: LIGHT) is a global leader in lighting products, systems and services. Our understanding of how lighting positively affects people coupled with our deep technological know-how enable us to deliver digital lighting innovations that unlock new business value, deliver rich user experiences and help to improve lives. Serving professional and consumer markets, we sell more energy efficient LED lighting than any other company. We lead the industry in connected lighting systems and services, leveraging the Internet of Things to take light beyond illumination and transform homes, buildings and urban spaces. In 2015, we had sales of EUR 7.4 billion. News from Philips Lighting is located at www.lighting.philips.com/newsroom.

Closing and settlement of the offering is expected to take place on Tuesday, 31 May 2016.

€330 million raised (primary and secondary); market capitalisation equivalent to €769 million

Paris – 27 May 2016– EnterNext today celebrated the first day of trading for Maisons du Monde, the European leader in home decoration and furniture collections (ticker code : MDM).

Twenty years ago, Maisons du Monde developed a unique and inspirational universe of homeware designs, offering affordable collections that showcase multiple styles, built on a design-to-cost process and an omnichannel approach. French consumers responded enthusiastically and its success soon spread to other markets in Europe. At the end of 2015, the Group operated 262 stores in seven countries and an e-commerce platform serving customers in eleven European countries. Maisons du Monde has recorded uninterrupted double-digit top-line growth for fifteen years. Today’s listing will give it greater financial flexibility as it expands its selective, omnichannel development strategy in France and internationally.

Maisons du Monde was listed through the admission to trading on 27 May 2016 of 45.241.894 shares, including 9.411.764 new shares and 10 000 000 existing shares issued as part of a public offering. The offering was enthusiastically received by investors.

The admission price was set at €17.00 per share, and market capitalisation on the date of listing was €769 million. Maisons du Monde was listed in compartment B of the Euronext Paris regulated market.

Gilles Petit, Chairman and CEO of Maisons du Monde, said:“We are delighted with the success of our listing. Investor interest is a sign of confidence in Maisons du Monde’s unique model and growth strategy. Listing has given us increased financial flexilibity that will enable us to step up our growth in France and on international markets in a growing market.”

About Maisons du MondeMaisons du Monde is a creator of inspirational universes in the homeware industry, offering distinctive and affordable decoration and furniture collections that showcase multiple styles. The Group develops its business through an integrated and complementary omnichannel approach, leveraging its international network of stores, websites, mobile applications and catalogs.
The Group was founded in France in 1996 and has profitably expanded across Europe since 2003. It operated 262 stores in seven countries as of December 31, 2015, including France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg, and generated 34% of its customer sales outside France in the year ended December 31, 2015. Additionally, the Group has been able to integrate a complementary and comprehensive e-commerce platform which grew at a CAGR of 36% per annum from 2010 to 2015 and generated 17% of the Group’s customer sales for the year ended December 31, 2015 from sales in 11 countries (all of the countries in which the Group operates stores, plus Austria, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom).

ForFarmers (ticker code: FFARM) is active in the area of conventional and organic feed solutions for farming. The company is headquartered in Lochem, the Netherlands and employs 2,370 people. With a total sales volume in animal feed of 9.1 million tonnes and a revenue of EUR 2.2 billion[1], it is the largest animal feed company in Europe.

In addition to animal feed for the ruminant, swine and poultry sectors, ForFarmers also offers its customers additional expertise and advice in the fields of nutrition, livestock farming and business development in order to support them in improving their returns.The agricultural sector plays an important role in the challenge of feeding a growing world population in a sustainable way. ForFarmers is committed to be an industry leader in terms of sustainability[2].

The listing on Euronext Amsterdam will enable institutional investors to invest in the company, further enhance ForFarmers’ public profile and brand recognition and create better liquidity for existing holders of securities.

After opening, the first market price was € 6.97.Based on the first price, the total market capitalization of the company was around € 740million.

Yoram Knoop, CEO at ForFarmers, said:“This is a historic day for ForFarmers. A public stock exchange listing is a logical step in the development of ForFarmers and we are proud to have been given the mandate by the members of Coöperatie FromFarmers as well as the other shareholders. This would not have been possible without the great efforts and commitments of all our stakeholders. We will continue to communicate in a transparent way about the implementation of our Horizon 2020 strategy.”

Maurice van Tilburg, CEO at Euronext Amsterdam, said:“Euronext is proud to welcome ForFarmers, a company with cooperative roots and international activities building on the professionalism of Dutch farmers. ForFarmers, being active in the agricultural sector, is another example of a valuable addition to the representation of Dutch heritage on Euronext Amsterdam.”

The company celebrated its listing on Euronext Amsterdam today by sounding the gong.

About ForFarmers
ForFarmers N.V. (Lochem, the Netherlands) is an internationally operating company active in the field of conventional and organic feed solutions for the stock farming. ForFarmers is the European market leader, with annual volumes of around 9.1 million tons of livestock feed.
Through the efficient production and logistics of feed and by developing products and concepts that ensure a better nutritional efficiency and improved quality of life for animals, ForFarmers contributes to economically viable and sustainable food production. In order to do so, the company has its own innovation centre, which cooperates closely with leading research institutes and universities.
In 2015, ForFarmers recorded revenue of € 2.2 billion. The company has a workforce of 2,370 employees and production facilities in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Paris – 24 May 2016– EnterNext, the Euronext subsidiary dedicated to promoting and growing the market for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs), today celebrated the listing ofKerlink, a French company specialising in the Internet of Things (IoT), on Alternext Paris.

Kerlink is an innovative tech company, founded in 2004 to create network solutions for connected objects used by businesses, public authorites and also telecoms operators. In just over 10 years, it has become a pioneer in IoT, developing a full range of solutions that bring together the equipment, software and services which enable its clients to manage their IoT networks. Kerlink’s offer responds to a diverse client base and spans sectors ranging from passenger and freight transport to telemetrics, as well as power and water network operators. Today the company has over 120 clients and nearly 50,000 systems installed.

Kerlink (ticker code: ALKLK) was listed through the admission to trading on 24 May 2016 of 3,552,557 common shares, including 978,069 shares issued as part of a public offering after the partial exercise of the over-allotment option.

The admission price and issue price of Kerlink’s shares was set at €10.43. Market capitalisation on the day of listing was €37.05 million, and the total amount raised was €10.2 million.

William Gouesbet, CEO of Kerlink, said:“We would like thank our new shareholders, both institutional and individual, for their confidence in our project, as well as the teams that have contributed to this operation. This is clearly a very important step in Kerlink’s development, which will allow us to remain one step ahead in terms of technology, to accelerate our commercial strategy and to reinforce our international footprint. We are very happy to be joining Euronext, a leading platform for European tech companies.”

About Kerlink
Kerlink is a network solution specialist dedicated to the Internet of Things (IoT). Its mission is to offer its clients - telecom carriers, businesses, and communities - network solutions they can use to take advantage of the considerable economic opportunities in this market, which is growing rapidly around the world. In 10 years, more than 50,000 Kerlink installations have already been rolled out for more than 120 clients such as GrDF, Suez, Saur, Bouygues, Orange, Swisscom, and Médiamétrie. In 2015, Kerlink had a turnover of €7.4m, with an EBITDA close to break even. Since 2014, Kerlink has posted average annual growth of more than 40%. Internationally, development is promising, as turnover has more than tripled in two years and now stands at over 20% of total activity.

Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon and Paris – 17 May 2016– Euronext today announced the first issue of Treasury Bonds, dedicated to retail investors, to be listed in its regulated market on May 19. Initially set at €350 million, the Portuguese Treasury and Debt Management Agency (IGCP), which has issued this “OTRV Maio 2021” bond on behalf of the Portuguese government, increased the total amount to €750 million based on the demand surge on the first day of the subscription period.

During the subscription period, which took place between 26 April and 16 May, the “OTRV Maio 2021” bond demand exceeded €1.2 billion.

Over 95% of the treasury bonds to retail were purchased by Portuguese investors, around 37,000 in total, and the remaining 5% were bought by foreign investors residing in Portugal. The average value of the inserted orders was over €31,000 each.

This was the largest bond issue ever processed on Euronext Lisbon centralisation system, totalling close to 39,000 valid orders.

The “OTRV Maio 2021” bond pay a semi-annual variable interest rate equal to the 6-month Euribor rate plus 2.20%, with a minimum interest rate of 2.20% (Annual Gross Nominal Rate) and reach maturity on 19 May 2021. The banks BPI, CGD and Novo Banco were the global organisers and coordinators of this treasury bond sale.

"The issuance of Portuguese treasury bonds which will be admitted to trading on Euronext Lisbon was a success. The OTRV is a new instrument which satisfies the investment needs of a class of savers looking for profitable, secure and liquid solutions, enabling private investors to purchase treasury bonds trading on the Stock Exchange. The demand clearly shows that the Portuguese people are savers and that they trust the savings instruments from the State. The Republic deserves to be trusted by the Portuguese people. The Portuguese believe that an inclusive economic growth, within the framework of institutional and political stability, is a guarantee for well-being and that is the model for sustainable growth”, stated Ricardo Mourinho Félix, Secretary of State Assistant, of the Treasury and of Finance‎.

“Since 2012, the IGCP has been committed to boosting the retail sector in order to build a stable base of the national public debt market. The launching of the OTRV is part of this strategy. It introduces retail public debt products for commercialisation in the banking sector, and we are very pleased with the reaction of the target audience. Thus, the IGCP will continue to work towards improving the offer making adjustments to meet the needs of the retail market and the national market, consolidating in this way another financing source of the Portuguese government”, said Cristina Casalinho, President of IGCP.

“It is with great pleasure that Euronext announced today the admission to trading on the regulated markets of the first issue of Portuguese Treasury Bonds with nation-wide distribution and a strong demand by private investors. This is a highly positive moment in time for the capital markets and it is the culmination of a joint effort with the IGCP focusing on increasing the offer of financial products”, stated Isabel Ucha, the interim CEO of Euronext Lisbon.

Further strengthening of core business, excluding clearing operations, to deliver:

Revenue growth of 2% CAGR

Cost base reduction of €22 million gross

Selected growth initiatives to contribute €70 million additional revenue and €35 million incremental costs at the end of the period

Group EBITDA margin excluding clearing operations to reach 61 to 63% in 2019

Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, London and Paris – 13 May 2016– Today Euronext announces its strategic plan “Agility for Growth”. Following the delivery of its IPO objectives a year in advance, Euronext has defined its growth ambitions to 2019. Under this plan, Euronext will enhance its agility in order to strengthen the resilience of its core business, to capture strategic opportunities and to grow in selected segments. The driver of this plan is to fulfil Euronext’s core mission: power pan-European capital markets to finance the real economy, while delivering value to shareholders.

Enhancing agility

Euronext will implement a disciplined innovation strategy, intensify client centricity, continue to reduce cost, strengthen its information technology and infrastructure platform, attract and develop best talent and entrepreneurs and deploy a disciplined M&A programme to accelerate its growth strategy in selected segments.

Leveraging the current environment

Euronext will benefit from a broadly favourable environment driven by three factors. The Euro area economic environment is expected to remain supportive of Euronext’s core business, as Quantitative Easing and low interest rates continue to drive investors’ search for yield. Innovation in capital markets will offer Euronext opportunities to develop new services with clients. The ongoing regulatory changes will increasingly drive value towards transparent, neutral, centrally cleared, open and regulated markets.

Strengthening core business and growing in selected segments

Euronext will further strengthen its core business, creating value for clients and shareholders alike, and grow in selected segments to diversify revenue streams and scale Euronext’s businesses.

The main drivers for strengthening Euronext’s core business will be to:

Expand Euronext’s listing business to further finance the real economy in Europe;

Maintain the Company’s successful strategy of optimising its core cash equity business to remain the market of reference for trading in Euronext listed companies;

Extend the product mix of the derivatives franchise to deliver risk management tools for clients and provide OTC trade capture services; and

Euronext will also focus on six growth initiatives in selected segments to:

Add value to issuers, with two ambitions: become the exchange for European Tech SMEs and build the modular corporate services provider on data analytics, and

Add value to investors, with four ambitions: provide a one-stop-shop pan-European ETF platform, launch a Euronext branded European family of indices, become a specialist content provider on agricultural commodities while capturing OTC flows, and deliver choice in clearing in cash markets, create optionalities in derivatives clearing and diversify the post trade franchise.

In order to accelerate Euronext’s standalone strategy, its growth ambitions will be achieved both organically, leveraging on its existing assets and talents, and inorganically, through disciplined and selected bolt-on acquisitions. The overall amount allocated to development costs and bolt-on acquisitions will be comprised between €100 and €150 million over the period.

In an evolving industry landscape, Euronext will carefully assess any potential opportunity resulting in a transformational transaction that will create value for clients and shareholders.

Setting ambitious financial objectives

Euronext’s strategy “Agility for Growth” translates into a set of new financial objectives. Clearing operations are excluded from 2019 targets, as Euronext’s clearing contracts with LCH.Clearnet SA expire at the end of 2018. Euronext is exploring all possible avenues for the clearing of its operations and intends to develop optionality for its clients that will bring the same financial benefits to the Company as the current arrangement does.

Euronext’s core business revenue will grow by a 2% CAGR over the 2015 – 2019 period [1]. On top of this, the six new growth initiatives will bring about €70 million of additional revenue. As a result, Group revenue will grow by a CAGR of 5% over the period, up to about €575 million, vs. €467 million in 2015, excluding clearing revenue.

Cost management will remain a key pillar of Euronext’s strategy to 2019. A target of €22 million of gross efficiencies has been identified, representing about €15 million net, taking into account an annual inflation rate of 1% over the period. The restructuring costs requested to deliver the additional cost efficiencies are estimated at 1.5 times the gross efficiencies, or €33 million.

The completion of the strategic plan and the growth initatives will induce about €35 million of additional operational expenses. On a net basis, the Company’s cost base will then increase by about 1% CAGR over the period. Euronext’s EBITDA margin is expected to range between 61% and 63% by 2019.

Enhancing shareholder value

Euronext intends to pursue a very disciplined capital allocation policy. The Managing Board has proposed to confirm the dividend policy of 50% of reported earnings, enabling the Company to reach the objectives set by its strategic plan. This includes the possibility to execute its value accretive bolt-on acquisition strategy while maintaining sufficient financial flexibility for potential transformational transactions.

Euronext considers its capital management policy as a core priority and a key part of its value proposition to shareholders, and will return any excess of capital on its balance sheet in the absence of transformational deals during the period.

[1]This growth has to be calculated based on 2015 revenue excluding clearing.

New strategic plan, “Agility for Growth”, to be released tomorrow, 13 May 2016

“Despite turbulent market conditions, Euronext has continued to improve its EBITDA margin thanks to the Company’s ongoing cost discipline. These results once again demonstrate the resilience of Euronext business model. Tomorrow, we will present our strategic plan till 2019. It will reinforce our commitment to maintain robust cost control while increasing emphasis on selected growth initiatives in order to deliver more value to all our clients.” said Stéphane Boujnah, Chairman and CEO of the Managing Board of Euronext NV.

Sif is a leading manufacturer of large steel tubulars which are used as foundation components for the offshore wind and offshore oil & gas markets. The company manufactures customised tubular components for offshore foundations, predominantly in the greater North Sea region. Sif is headquartered in Roermond, the Netherlands, with a production site of over 100,000m2 and 13 production halls, strategically located along a key waterway in the Netherlands.

In total € 112 million was raised. With a market capitalisation of € 357 million the listing of Sif is, so far, the largest this year, within the EnterNext scope.

Jan Bruggenthijs, CEO at Sif, said: “We are very pleased to have completed the listing process, resulting in a listing on Euronext Amsterdam which we celebrate today. Euronext provides a solid platform for Sif, it gives access to the capital markets and provides brand recognition and transparency. We would like to thank our investors for their trust in the company and its management and look forward to executing our growth strategy as a leading manufacturer of large steel tubular foundation components for the offshore wind and offshore oil & gas industries. We are ready for a life as a listed company.”

The company celebrated its listing on Euronext Amsterdam today by sounding the gong. Jan Bruggenthijs, CEO at Sif, was accompanied by Mr. Schmeitz, member of the founding family of Sif.

(*) EnterNext, the Euronext subsidiary dedicated to promoting and growing its SME market.

Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, London and Paris – 12 May 2016 – Euronext today announced that it is in exclusive talks to acquire a 20% equity stake in EuroCCP for €14M (including contribution to regulatory capital) subject to closing adjustments and regulatory approval. In addition, Euronext will offer choice in clearing within the Eurozone through the implementation of a preferred Central Counterparty (CCP) model for its equity markets. EuroCCP is the leading CCP for pan-European equity markets providing clearing and settlement services and this new partnership will allow clients to benefit from significant operational and cost efficiencies.

Following completion of this transaction five shareholders will each own 20% stake in EuroCCP : Euronext, ABN Amro Clearing Bank, Bats Europe, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and Nasdaq. Euronext is taking a major step forward to the benefit of its clients through enabling user choice, by delivering optionality in clearing and enhancing the service for equities trading in the Eurozone.

Euronext will launch a Preferred Clearing service, providing trading participants with the choice of CCP. Under this service, if participants on both sides of a trade select EuroCCP as their CCP then the executed trade will be cleared by EuroCCP, their designated CCP. This will allow clients greater operational efficiency, the potential for increased netting opportunities and the ability to reduce frictional post-trade costs in relation to Euronext equity markets. This model will be followed by a fully interoperable service and will be open to other CCPs in due course.

“Our investment in EuroCCP and the implementation of a preferred CCP model will ensure the long-term delivery of clearing choice for our diverse range of equity clients. It further reduces the frictional costs of trading on our equity markets. This is a step forward in our commitment to offer optionality to all our clients in the Eurozone and to power pan-European capital markets to finance the real economy.” said Stéphane Boujnah, Chairman and CEO of the Managing Board of Euronext NV.

“Sustaining competition in clearing has long been our goal at EuroCCP and we are delighted that Euronext joins us in this vision as a strategic investor and service partner. We look forward to working closely with them on the roll-out of their preferred clearing model”, said Jan Bart de Boer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of EuroCCP and Chief Commercial Officer, ABN AMRO Clearing.

Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, London and Paris – 11 May 2016 – Euronext and the Dutch Ministry of Finance have reached agreement on Euronext’s prudential requirements. The agreement follows an evaluation of the initial requirements that were set following incorporation of the Company and ahead of its IPO in 2014. The agreed new requirements provide Euronext N.V. with the necessary flexibility to pursue its strategic objectives and remove uncertainty around its financial structure, while not hampering financial stability in the long-term. The improved requirements enable Euronext to pursue acquisitions and investments and to define a prudent and consistent dividend policy and financial structure.

The new prudential requirements are articulated into two key pillars:

A long-term positive tangible equity requirement mitigated by:

The possibility to deduct the potential goodwill arising from acquisitions in annual arrears of 10 years or more (“grow-in-period”) taking into account i) the dividend policy of Euronext N.V. and ii) the actual acquisition multiples paid, should the P/E ratio paid for the acquisition exceed 10 times;

The possibility to go into negative tangible equity territory without direct implication on the dividend policy of the Group.

Euronext N.V.will, in accordance with applicable requirements, be able to define its own dividend policy as determined by the Supervisory Board and approved in its Annual General Meeting, taking into consideration that a situation of negative tangible equity will not limit the distribution policy, provided that it does not endanger the long-term financial stability of the Company. Euronext considers that it does not endanger its long-term financial stability as long as its gross debt to EBITDA ratio does not exceed 3.5x.

As a result of the agreement, the Dutch Ministry of Finance has decided to withdraw its appeal against the ruling of the District Court of Rotterdam of 17 December 20152. The new prudential requirements will be integrated in a new license in a way that adequately ensures a stable capital structure3, complying with the Dutch Financial Supervision Act (‘Wft’).

At the Eurofi conference in Amsterdam on 21st April 2016, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Minister of Finance of the Netherlands, said, “Euronext is a shining example of the pan European capital market. It's crucial for financing companies and this is what the Capital Market Union is about.”

Stéphane Boujnah, Euronext CEO and chairman of the Managing Board, said, “We are very pleased to reach this agreement and I would like to thank the Dutch Ministry of Finance and the AFM for their constructive and cooperative approach to forming the new prudential requirements. The outcome of our agreement means that Euronext is free to make acquisitions and investments, which deliver growth and further strengthen our competitive position. We can now unambiguously continue playing our key role in financing the real economy.”

Biopharmaceutical company specialized in allergies valued at € 89.3 million

Brussels, Paris – 11 May 2016 – Euronext today celebrated the listing of ASIT biotech on its Brussels and Paris markets. ASIT biotech joins a community of 77 life sciences issuers listed on Euronext.

Headquarted in Belgium, ASIT biotech s.a. (formerly known as Biotech Tools) is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and future commercialization of a range of breakthrough immunotherapy products for the treatment of allergies, based on its ASIT+™ technology platform. The company was founded in 1997 as a spin-off company of the Université libre de Bruxelles.

ASIT biotech (ticker code: ASIT) raised € 23.5 million in new capital at a final offer price of € 7.00 per share. With a total of 12,756,800 shares admitted on the day of listing, the company has an initial market capitalisation of € 89.3 million.

The proceeds of the IPO will help ASIT biotech to support the preclinical and clinical development of product candidates, to cover general corporate purposes and to accelerate the discovery of new ASIT+™ platform-based product candidates.

Thierry Legon, Chief Executive Officer of ASIT biotech, declared: “After the successful closing of the subscription period, today’s listing marks a further major milestone in ASIT biotech's development and ambition to change the face of the current allergy immunotherapy (AIT) market by overcoming the main drawbacks of the existing AIT treatments. This initial public offering will support the strong momentum established by our achievements and will allow us to bring our gp-ASIT+™ lead product candidate for grass pollen allergy through Phase III, currently underway in Europe, and to move towards a first application for commercialisation in Germany. The management team and the Board of Directors would like to take this opportunity to thank both private and institutional investors for subscribing in the offer. It indicates a strong confidence in and support for our strategy.”

About ASIT biotech
ASIT biotech is a Belgian clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and future commercialisation of a range of breakthrough immunotherapy products for the treatment of allergies. Thanks to its innovative ASIT+TM technology platform, ASIT biotech is currently the only developer of AIT product candidates consisting of a unique mixture of highly purified natural allergen fragments in an optimal size selection. This innovation results in a short treatment, expected to improve patient compliance and real-life effectiveness. ASIT biotech’s product pipeline entails two novel ASIT+™ product candidates targeting respiratory allergy with the highest prevalence (i.e. grass pollen: gp-ASIT+TM and house dust mite: hdm-ASIT+TM), that could significantly expand the current immunotherapy market. The Company believes that its innovative ASIT+™ platform is flexible and would be applicable across a range of allergies. ASIT biotech has a headcount of 22 staff members, at its headquarters in Brussels and a laboratory in Liège, Belgium.

Paris – 10 May 2016 – Euronext today announced the launch in autumn 2016 of the first physically-deliverable futures contract for nitrogen solution. Aimed at the European market, this innovative new contract will complement the Group’s commodity futures offering. It will enable Euronext to offer users a comprehensive suite of tools to manage price risk and cover their overall positions more efficiently, for both agricultural inputs and for grains and oilseeds such as wheat, rapeseed and corn.

Combining both urea and ammonium nitrate, UAN-30[1] solution is a common element of the family of nitrogen-based fertilisers used throughout the agricultural industry. Euronext will offer a physically delivered future traded in euros and backed by partners across the entire fertiliser supply chain, from producers and traders through storage terminal operators to cooperatives. The delivery point will be in Rouen (France), a major trading area for fertiliser imports as well as for crop exports such as wheat. The initial expiry calendar has been set for March, June, September and November over a 2-year horizon, reflecting the seasonal pattern of sowing, manuring and harvesting for different types of crop. Clearing will be handled by LCH SA, subject to regulatory approvals.

François Terrassin, CEO of Rubis Terminal, one of Europe’s leading independent storage specialists for fertiliser and agro, oil and chemical products, and Euronext’s partner for the new contract, said: “Rubis Terminal is delighted to team up with Euronext to launch this new contract. Our Rouen site is a major fertiliser supply and distribution platform for the agricultural sector and is ideally suited for the future success of this contract. We believe this initiative will make it easier for market players to access our offering and will confirm our position in Europe and worldwide.”

Olivier Raevel, Head of Commodities at Euronext, said: “Our nitrogen solution futures contract is intended for the whole fertiliser industry and its end-users, particularly cooperatives, who are key users of Euronext’s commodity contracts. Designed to meet the needs of an industry that is already familiar with instruments for hedging price risk in commodities, it will diversify our product offering. We are confident that this new contract will be a success and are keen to continue offering innovative solutions to our clients in this sector.”

Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, London and Paris – 4 May 2016 – Euronext, the leading exchange in the Eurozone, today announced trading volumes for April 2016.

The April 2016 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at €6,948 million (-23.4% compared with April 2015). However, the number of shares traded remained resilient (-3.8%).

After 21 months of continued growth, the activity on ETFs softened during April 2016 with an average daily transaction value at €548 million, down 14.0% compared to April 2015. Nonetheless, our ETF offer continued to expand with the first two listings on Euronext London.

The average daily volume on equity index derivatives was down at 211,268 contracts during April 2016 (-16.1% compared with April 2015), while the average daily volume on individual equity derivatives slightly decreased at 228,964 contracts (-3.1% compared with April 2015).

In April 2016, the average daily volume on commodities derivatives increased by 20.9% when compared to April 2015, with an average daily volume of 70,796 contracts. Thanks to a bountiful for 2015/2016 crop year, French Grains have been marketed unusually late, thereby boosting volumes. The ensuing low prices have generated further volatility in our commodities markets, resulting in a new historical record on 21 April at 112,292 milling wheat future contracts[1].

On a year-to-date basis, the overall average daily volume on Euronext derivatives stands at 549,806 contracts (+0.1% compared to 2015 YTD) and the open interest increased by 14,827,612 contracts (+3.9% compared to end of April 2015).

In April 2016, Euronext had three new listings of which GeNeuro and two EnterNext SMEs that altogether raised €298 million. In addition, during April 2016, €10.3 billion were raised on Euronext in corporate bonds and €5.6 billion of follow-on equity.

London –28 April 2016 –Euronext has extended its range of ETF listing and trading venues to London, enabling ETF issuers to access the UK investor base alongside its existing Eurozone trading and distribution network. Further benefits to issuers include competitive pricing, superior European cross listing efficiency and reduced time to market. Lyxor today listed the first two ETFs on Euronext London, the Lyxor UCITS ETF FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Developed and the Lyxor UCITS ETF Euro Stoxx Banks .

Euronext provides ETF issuers with access to five European markets; Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, Paris and now London, its FCA Recognized Investment Exchange. The service is delivered through a single entry point, on one technology platform with a harmonised rulebook. Clearing and settlement for London ETFs will take place through EuroCCP and Euroclear UK & Ireland respectively. The first trading participants on Euronext London include Société Générale and Kepler Cheuvreux.

“London is an important ETF market and the UK distribution network is increasingly valuable mainly thanks to the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) which is now starting to facilitate ETF penetration among the retail community,” said Lee Hodgkinson, Head of Markets and Global sales and CEO Euronext London. “By bringing together our unparalleled capital markets community we are helping Eurozone ETF issuers to extend their reach to UK investors and generate additional liquidity.”

Euronext is one of the leading platforms in Europe for ETF listing and trading, counting more than 700 instruments on its markets in Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, Paris and London. Euronext’s ETF markets are strong and growing rapidly. In 2015 trading volume increased by 74%.

Paris – 22 April 2016 – EnterNext, the Euronext subsidiary dedicated to promoting and growing the market for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs), today celebrated Mediawan's listing in the professional compartment of its regulated market in Paris. Mediawan is a SPAC or Special Purpose Acquisition Company, set up to acquire one or more companies specializing in traditional and digital media or entertainment in Europe. The operation constitutes the first listing of a SPAC in France. To mark the company’s first day of trading, Mediawan's co-founder and chairman of the management board Pierre-Antoine Capton rang the Euronext markets opening bell.

A SPAC is a special-purpose vehicle designed to raise capital on the stock exchange with a view to making one or several acquisitions in the 24 months following listing, for an amount equal to at least 75% of total funds raised. An innovative financing vehicle, SPACs operate according to some of the management and investment mechanisms employed for private-equity funds, while offering investors all the guarantees offered by the Bourse, including transparency, liquidity, voting rights, information, safety and regulation.

Mediawan was listed in the professional compartment of Euronext Paris through the admission to trading of 25,000,000 preferred shares (ticker code: MDWP) and 25,000,000 equity warrants for common shares (ticker code: MDWBS). Securities were placed with qualified investors at €10.00 per unit (each unit consisting of one preferred share and one equity warrant) allowing Mediawan to raise €250 million.

Following the listing ceremony, Pierre-Antoine Capton, Mediawan's co-founder and chairman of the management board, said: “We are very happy and proud that Mediawan—France's first SPAC—is now listed on Euronext, and we look forward to setting up a European media content and entertainment platform for the world market right here in Paris.”

About EuronextEuronext is the leading pan-European exchange in the Eurozone with nearly 1,300 listed issuers worth close to €3.6 trillion in market capitalisation as of end December 2017, an unmatched blue chip franchise consisting of 24 issuers in the Morningstar® Eurozone 50 Index℠ and a strong diverse domestic and international client base. Euronext operates regulated and transparent equity and derivatives markets. Its total product offering includes Equities, Exchange Traded Funds, Warrants & Certificates, Bonds, Derivatives, Commodities and Indices. Euronext also leverages its expertise in running markets by providing technology and managed services to third parties. In addition to its main regulated market, Euronext also operates Euronext GrowthTM (formerly known as Alternext) and Euronext AccessTM (formerly known as the Free Market). For the latest news, find us on Twitter (www.twitter.com/euronext) and LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/company/euronext).

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